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EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50 LB BAGS OF SALT ON PALLETS WHEN HE FELT PAIN IN HIS RIGHT SHOULDER. EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.
EMPLOYEE WAS PALLETIZING TRAYS AND 12/5 LB BALES OF SALT. EMPLOYEE TURNED TO PUT A TRAY ON PALLET AND FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND HIP.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN EVAPORATOR #2 CRIMPING THE UNDERNEATH SIDE OF TUBES.HE WAS WORKING ON A 15' LADDER.THE TOP OF THE LADDER SLID ALONG THE WALL OF THE EVAPORATOR.CRIMPING TOOL FOLLOWED,ST RIKING EMPLOYEE ON HEAD.EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A WRIST STRAIN/SPRAIN,BRUISE AND CONTUSION TO WRIST AND HEAD AND WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY BY PHYSICIAN.
EMPLOYEE WAS SITTING ON STOOLE WHEN LEG BRACE ON STOOL BROKE, TIPPING TOOL AND CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL TO FLOOR. EMPLOYEE CAUGHT HERSELF WITH LEFT HAND WHEN SHE FELL, SEVERELY BRUISING LEFT H AND. ARM BRACE WAS PRESCRIBED BY DR, AND EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.
EE PUSHED START BUTTON FOR THE AGITATOR. THE BREAKER BLEW, TRIPPING MAIN PANEL BREAKER. EE PULLED FUSES TO CONTROL POWER TRANSFORMER. ANOTHER EE RESET MAIN BREAKER. EE STARTED TO PUT FUSES BAC K IN PANEL. AS HE WAS PUSHING THEM IN, THERE WASA LARGE ARC AND FIREBALL, BURNING HIS LEFT HAND. 2ND DEGREE BURNS TO LEFT HAND.
EE WAS RUNNING 50 LB. BRINE BLOCKS AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STACKING A BLOCK WHEN THE PALLET BROKE UNDER HIS WEIGHT WHEN HE STEPPED ON IT. HIS LEFT KNEE HIT THE SALT BLOCK, AND HE TWISTED HIS KNEE. EE RECEIVED MEDCIAL TREATMENT ON 6-1-94 AND PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBED A LEG BRACE AND EE WAS PUT ON LIGHT DUTY AND REFERRED TO AN ORTHOPOEDIC PHYSICIAN.
EMPLOYEE CANNOT GIVE A SPECIFIC INJURY/ACCIDENT DATE. EMPLOYEE SAID HE HAD SEEN A PHYSICIAN AND WOULD POSSIBLE NEED HERNIA SURGERY. HERNIA SURGERY WAS PERFORMED ON 6-9-94. EMPLOYEE HAD PREVIOU SLY BEEN SCHEDULED FOR VACATION FOR THIS TIME PERIOD.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING OVERHEAD INTO CEMENT, PUT TING IN ANGLE IRON. WHEN HE PULLED THE DRILL OUT OF THE HOLE, SOMETHING FELL INTO HIS RIGHT EYEIT BECAME IRRITATED AND HE WENT TO THE DR. 3-19- 94. HE PRESCRIBED PAIN MEDICATION AND PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS.
EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP 50 LB BAG THAT FELL OFF MIMA STRETCH WRAPPER. ALSO, SHE WAS PUTTING PLYWOOD SHEETS ON FINISHED LOADS OF PELLETS. SHE APPARENTLY RE-AGGRAVATED A PREVIOUS RITHT SHOULDER INJURY/SURGERY. PREVIOUS INJURY HAD OCCURRED 8/15/92. SHE ALSO HAD BEEN OPERATING FORKLIFT IN REVERSE.
INITIAL COMPLAINT WAS OF SOMETHING IN RT EYE SECONDARY COMPLAINT WAS SORENESS IN MUSCLE OF UPPER TR ARM EMPLOYEE FIRST SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 12-21-93 EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN USING PUSH HOE TO CLEAN SCALE & SALT OFF THE WALLS IN #3 EVAPORATOR HE HAD HIS EYE FLUSHED OUT & WAS PRESCRIBED A WRIST SPLINT & PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY BECAUSE OF STRAIN TO ARM
EMPLOYEE HAD BACK INJURY 7/1/85 WHICH RESULTED IN LOST TIME. HE STATES HE HAS CONTINUED BACK PROBLEMS OFF & ON SINCE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE HAS REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENT SINCE ORIGINAL ACCIDENT. HE DENIED MEDICAL TREATMENT IN PAST 2 YRS. UNTIL 5 MONTHS AGO HAD STRESS THERAPY & AN ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT ABOUT 9 MOS. AGO. NO SPECIFIC ACTIVITY TRIGGERED BACK PAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING CARBOARD RINGS FROM UNDERNEATH THE RECUTTER MACHINE WITHOUT EQUIPMENT LOCKED OUTBUT STOPPED BY ELECTRIC EYES. WHEN MACHINE STARTED UP WHEN ELECTRIC EYES CLEARED, HIS HAN D WAS PULLED INTO IDLER SPROCKET OF THE CHAIN OPERATING THE PUSH ON ARM. AS A RESULT, HIS FINGERS ON HAND RIGHT WERE AMPUTATED BETWEEN THE IDLER SPROCKET AND THE CHAIN.
EMPLOYEE RUNS LABELER MACHINE ON THE CAN LINE. HOT MELT GLUE AND OIL MIXTURE IN FRONT OF LABELER GETS ON BOTTOM OF SHOES, CAUSING SLIPPERY SURFACE. EMPLOYEE WAS GOING DOWN STAIRS AT NORTH EAST EXIT FROM CAN LINE AND SLIPPED ON THE 4TH STAIR AND TWISTED RIGHT KNEE. FIRST SAW DOCTOR 12-23-93. NO LOST TIME OR LIGHT DUTY AT THAT TIME. EMPLOYEE HAD SURGERY ON RIGHT KNEE 1-31-94.
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A WEDGED CAP BETWEEN SEAT CHAIN & RAIL SUPPORT BLADE WITH RIGHT HAND. AS EMPLOYEE REACHED TO REMOVE CAP LOOKED AWAY. DURING LOOKING AWAY FINGER GOT TOO CLOSE TO SEAT CH AIN & FINGER WAS CAUGHT IN MOVING SEAT CHAIN OR CAUGHT BETWEEN SEAT CHAIN & RAIL SUPPORT BLADE ADJACENT TO SEAT CHAIN. LACERATION SUSTAINED TO MIDDLE FINGER RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE TOLD SUPERVISOR HIS BACK WAS SORE ON 10/26/93, BUT HE THOUGHT IT WAS DUE TO WATERBED BECAUSE HIS BACK DID NOT BOTHER HIM AT WORK. ON 10/27/93 AND 10/28/93, EMPLOYEE SACKED ON THE AUTO MATIC LINE WHICH DOES NOT REQUIRE MANUAL PALLETIZING OF BAGS. EMPLOYEE WAS SCHEDULED (NORMAL DAYS OFF) OFF ON 10/29 AND 10/30. HE WAS SCHEDULED TO WORK 10/31/93, BUT CALLED IN SICK. ON 11/1 S
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO GRAB A TAIL END OF STRETCH WRAP WHEN PALLET MOVING ON LIVE ROLLERS ROLLED OVER HIS MIDDLE FINGER, LEFT HAND. MIDDLE FINGER, LEFT HAND WAS FRACTURED AND LACERATED.
EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING THE CASEER IN THE CAN LINE BACK OVER TO RUN REGULAR CASES AFTER RUNNING 12 PACKS (HALF CASES) WHEN HE WAS SETTING THE BLANK ADJUSTMENT BRACKET IN PLACE IT BECAME STUCK HE MOVED IT BACK & FORTH TO FREE IT & IT CAME LOOSE & FELL ON HIS FOURTH FINGER LEFT HAND PINNING FINGER BETWEEN TWO BRACKETS EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED A FRACTURE OF DISTAL PHALANYX FOURTH FINGER LEFT
ON 6/15/93 WAS NOTIFIED BY PHYSICIAN THAT EMPLOYEE WAS ALLEGING THAT AT THE TIME OF ACCIDENT, 11/30/92, SHE HAD RECURRENT TRAUMA TO HER LEFT HAND. SHE STATED SHE HITS THE METAL RAILS AND SCREW S PROJECTING FROM THE MACHINE AS SHE INSPECTS CANS. IN ADDITION, SHE REPORTED THAT AT THE END OF SEPT. 1992, THE CASER WAS CHANGED AT WORK AND SHE HAD TO USE ONE HAND TO DO HER WORK, WHICH AL
RAIL CAR DOOR WAS STUCK AND WOULD NOT MOVE. EE AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE TRYING TO GET DOOR UNSTUCK BY ROCKING DOOR. THE DOOR CAME FREE ALL AT ONCE AND THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR STRUCK THE TOP OF EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT FOOT, BRUISING FOOT. FOOT SWELLED AND EMPLOYEE COULD NOT GET SAFETY SHOE ON, SO WAS GIVEN TRAINING (LIGHT DUTY) THE FOLLOWING DAY.
EE HAD STACKED APPROX. 100 SALT BLOCKS WEIGHTING 50 LBS EACH AS HE WAS TAKING A BLOCK OFF OF TABLE HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND IT POPPED AT THE SAME TIME LOW BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WENT TO THE AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER TO CLEAR PALLETS THAT WERE HUNG UP I NPALLET DISPENSER. HE OBSERVED A PALLET WHICH WAS PLACED AT AN ANGLE IN THE DISPENSER, WITH 8 PALLETS ABOVE. WH EN HE PUSHED THE PALLET IN, THE PALLETS ABOVE DROPPED, CATCHING HIS LEFT THUMB BETWEEN THE PALLETS AND FINGER OF DISPENSER. EMPLOYEE BRUISED THUMB ON LEFT HAND, WITH A MINOR CUT TO BOTH SIDE
EE REPORTED ON 2-15-93 THAT HE INJURED HIS KNEE STEPPING UP INTO THE MENS RESTROOM. HE ALLEGES HE FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS KNEE. ON 2-1-93 EE HAD TOLD FOREMAN HIS KNEE WAS HURTING, BUT HE DID NOT BUMP IT OR HURT IT AT WORK 2-12-93 EE CALLED AND SAID HE NEEDED TO PUT HIS KNEE ON WORKMANS COMP, SO A MEETING WAS SET UP FOR 2-15-93 TO DISCUSS WITH EE AT THAT TIME HE SAID HE FELT IT HA
EE WAS STANDING ON TANK, WAS PASSED A RELIEF VALVE 1 1/2 INCH APX 50 LBS SPEED DRY WAS SPREAD IN THE AREA. HE LOST BALANCE AND FELL FORWARD HITTING HAND BETWEEN SOMETHING ON THE PRESS AND RELI EF VALVE HE WAS HOLDING. HE WAS WEARING GLOVES AND NOTICED HE WAS BLEEDING OIL FILM IN THE AREA WAS A MAJOR CAUSED OF THE ACCIDENT. PRESSES POWER UNTI IS NOT CLEANED.
EE WAS PULLING A JAMMED CASE BLANK OUT OF THE DIABLO CASE PACKER THE GLUE HAD BEEN APPLIED TO THE TOP GLUE FLAP. AS THE JAMMED CASE CAME LOOSE, IT FLIPPED THE GLUE FROM THE FLAP INTO EE S FACE AND GLUE RAN INTO EE RIGHT EYE. EE WAS WEARING REQUIRE EYE PROTECTION AT TIME AND EYE WAS FLUSHED OUT BUT ON 1/19/93 EYE WAS STILL RED AND EE WAS SENT TO DR THIS WAS A WATER BASED GLUE.
...EMPL ALSO COMPLAINED OF BOTH WRISTS HURTING AND BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME WAS DIAGNOSED ON 12-22-92. EMPL WAS GIVEN WRIST SPLINTS TO WEAR.
FORKLIFT DRIVEN BY EE & FORKLIFT DRIVEN BY EE COLLIDED AT CONGESTED DOG LEG CURGE BY WEST WAREHOUSE AREA COLLISION DAMAGED REAR OF EE FORKLIFT & BENT FORKS ON EE FORKLIFT AREA OF ACCIDENT WAS CONGESTED WITH LOW VISABILITY & ONLY ROOM FOR ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC NEITHER DRIVER SOUNDED HORN THROUGH THE AREA EE HEARED EE ENGINE BUT DIDNT SEE EE HE SAW HEADLIGHTS & HIT BRAKES
54736YEE WAS DUMPING A WASTE SALT HOPPER INTO THE DISSOLVING TANK THE HOPPER DID NOT COMPLETELY EMPTY OUT EMPLOYEE DID NOT SEE THIS & WAS UNAWARE OF THE FACT THAT THERE WAS SALT IN THE HOPPER 13038IS TIME SHE PULLED THE HOPPER BACK DOWN INTO THE LATCHED POSITION OVER EXERTING HER RT ARM & SHOULDER EMPLOYEE SUFFERED A ROTATOR CUFF INJURY TO HER RT SHOULDER & ARM HER ARM WAS PUT IN A
STACKING BAGS ON SALT
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST RETURNED (6/25/92) FROM A PRIOR HAND INJURY AND WAS ALTERNATING SEALING AND THROWING 80 LB. POLY PELLET BAGS OF SALT WITH TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES. THESE EMPLOYEES STACKED AND EST IMATED 350-400 BAGS DURING THE SHIFT. EE STATED HIS SHOULDER WAS SORE AND ATTRIBUTED IT TO LACK OF USE AND DID NOT REPORT THE PROBLEM UNTIL 7/1/92, WHEN HE CALLED HIS FOREMAN AT 7:45 AM.
EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING AND SEWING 50 LB. BAGS OF WATER SOFTENER PELLETS. ONE BAG FELL AND BAG CLAMP DID NOT CATCH IT. EMPLOYEE REACHED TO PULL IT UP AND HIS FINGERS SLIPPED OFF BAG, JAMMING RIGH T THUMB AGAINST THE FILL SPOUT.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CASE PACKER & SOMETIME DURING HIS SHIFT EMPLOYEES RT HAND CAME INTO CONTACT WITH SWING UP CASE SUPPORT EMPLOYEE TELEPHONED THE FOLLOWING MORNING & SAID HIS HAND WAS SW OLLEN
EMPLOYEE REPORTED HE HAD SOMETHING IN HIS LEFT EYE. HE COULD NOT SAY WHEN, WHERE OR HOW MATERIAL GOT IN HIS EYE.
ON 01-07-92 AT 3:00PM EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN A 3 DAY DISCIPLINARY SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY ON 01-09-92 EMPLOYEE CALLED RECEPTIONIST & SAID HIS BACK HURT LATER HE CALLED THE FOREMAN & SAID HIS BACK HURT THAT HE HAD WOKE UP WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH IT TENDER EMPLOYEE STATED IT MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY SCOOPING SALT OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SWEEPER HITTING HOLES IN THE FLOOR HE SAID HIS BACK
CUTTING OFF TIMBER WITH A CHAIN SAW, HIT NAIL AND CAUSED SAW TO KICK BACK CUTTING RIGHT WRIST BEFORE THE BRAKE ON THE SAW COULD STOB BLADE.
EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO GO HOME AND HE FELT SOMETHING IN HIS EYE. HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPEDEND TO CAUSE THIS.
LOADING BAGS OF SALT SUFFERED BACK STRAIN
PICKED UP PALLET FELT PULL IN BACK
EMPLOYEE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT, WHEN, OR WHERE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. HE DID NOT EXPERIENCE ANY PAIN OR DISCOMFORT IN HIS EYE, BUT DISCOVERED A SPECK IN HIS EYE WHEN HE WAS WASHING UP TO GO HOME. H E SAW IT IN THE MIRROR. PHYSICIAN REMOVED EMBEDDED PARTICLE FROM LEFT EYE.
LOADING TRUCK WITH FORKLIFT BACKING OUT RAMP FELL DOWN THREW HIM BACK AGAINST SEAT OF FORKLIFT
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A PICE OF 1/4" STEEL PLATE USING A LIFTING LUG.HE APPARENTLY LIFTED WITH A CHAIN FALL HOIST.SOMETIME DURING THE HOISTING AND TRANSPORTING PROECESS,THE PLATE SLIPPED OUT OF CLAMP AND FELL APPROXIMATELY 2 1/2 FEET. IT IS ASSUMED THE PLATE HIT THE FLOOR,THEN HIS BOOT AT THE EDGE OF THE STEEL TOE PROTECTOR.THIS RESULTED IN A COMPOUND FRACTURE,RIGHT FOOT,WITH THREE B
EE WAS TAKING 50 LB SALT BLOCKS FROM TABLE IN FRONT OF BLOCK PRESS AND STACKING THEM ON A PALLET THAT WAS 27INCH OFF OF THE FLOOR, WHEN HE BEGAN COMPLAINING OF PIAN IN HIS HIP. WHEN FOREMAN AN D EE GOT TO EMERGENCY RM, EE SAID HIS WRISTS WERE ALSO HURTING.
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING 50LB SALT BLOCKS ON PALLETS.HE PICKED UP A BLOCK OFF OF THE TABLE AND TURNED TO SET IT ON A PALLET,WHEN HE FELT A PAIN INLOWER BACK.EMPLOYEE WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY.
FEEDING BAG OF PELLETS IN TO BE SEWN, HAND SLIPPED OFF IN GUARD FOR BELT HAND BRUISED
EE REPORTED PAIN IN HIS RIGHT ELBOW ON 6-19-91. EE STATES HE WAS LOADING TOP LAYER OF CASES ON A PALLET. AS HE LIFTED THE CASE, HIS RIGHT ELBOW BEGAN HURTING SO HE REQUESTED SEEING DR EE SAID HIS ELBOW HAD BEEN HURTING FOR AWEEK. EE WAS SENTO TO DR ON 6-19-91.
OPENING DOOR TO BOILER FURNACE DOOR REMOVED GUST OF WIND BLEW DUST OVER HIM. DETECTED SOMETHING IN L EYE
EMPLOYEE WAS CARRING A GALLON OF ELECTRICAL SOLVENT (TOLUENE UN1294) IN AN UNCOVERED 5 GALLONG BUCKET. AS HE WAS ENTEREING A DOORWAY, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE CAME OUT OF THE DOOR, BUMPING EMPLOYEE W ITH SOLVENT IN BUCKET. SOLVENT SPLASHED IN EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT EYE, CAUSING CHEMICAL IRRITATION TO EYE. EMPLOYEE IS ISSUED PRESCRIPTION EYE DROPS FROM EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR.
MADE NEW INJURY.
EMPL WEIGHING 40 LB BAGS AND FELT A TEAR IN STOMACH WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A HERNIA OR RUPTURE RIGHT SIDE.
EMPL HAD CLOCKED OUT AND WAS ON WAY HOME,GOING DOWN THE RAMP,SLIPPED ON SOME SAND,FELL AND LANDED ON LEFT HAND BRUISING AND PULLING TENDONS IN LEFT WRIST.COCK-SPLINT WAS APPLIED FOR COMFORT.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST FINISHED EMPTYING TRASH & STEPPED DOWN FROM PLATFORM WHEN HE STEPPED ON UNEVEN FLOOR CAUSING HIS RT ANKLE TO TWIST EMPLOYEE WAS PUT ON CRUTCHES BY DOC & TOLD TO DO ONLY OFFIC E OR SECENTARY WORK OF WHICH NONE IS AVAILABLE
EMPLOYEE HAD A SALT BLOCK STUCK IN THE BLOCK PRESS MOLD BOX AND USED HIS HAND TO CHECK TO SEE IF HE HAD A BLOCK IN THE MOLD BOX. THE BLOCK FELL AND CAUGHT HIS HAND BETWEEN THE 50LB. SALT BLOC K AND THE BLOCK PRESS DIE.
EMPLOYEE WAS SCORING A PIECE OF ACRYLIC WITH A KNIFE WHEN HE ACCIDENTLY HIT THE BLADE RELEASE ON THE KNIFE, CAUSING THE BLADE TO CLOSE, CUTTING HIS LEFT LITTLE FINGER. CUT REQUIRED STITCHES TO CLOSE WOUND.
I.NAME SAW HIS DOCTOR AND WAS GIVEN AN INJECTION, AND THE PAIN FROM THE INJECTION CAUSED HIM TO MISS THAT DAY OF WORK. RIGHT SCIATICA, RIGHT SACROILIITIS. HAS MISSED 30 DAYS PREVIOUSLY.
RIGGING UP ON WELL BRACKET BROKE AT LET THE BLOCKS COME LOOSE HAND HAD TO JUMP OFF PLATFORM AND LANDED ON BLOCKS WHEN HE CAME BACK DOWN. FRACTURED HIS LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING IN A VERY CONFINED AREA, USING A 36" STEEL NAIL BAR TO PRY 2" X 12" WOOD BEAMS IN PLACE. NAIL BAR SLIPPED, CAUSING END OF BAR TO STRIKE EMPLOYEE ABOVE LEFT EYE, CUTTING EM PLOYEE. CUT REQUIRED TWO STITCHES ABOVE LEFT EYE.
NEW PIECE OF EQUIP WAS INSTALLED IN CAN LINE 9-17-90.EMPL BEGAN OPERATING IT WHICH OPERATED SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY THAN OLD EQUIP.THIS DIFFERENT MOTION CREATED UNFAMILIAR DEMAND ON WRISTS AND EL BOWS.EMPL SOUGHT MED ATTENTION 11-6-90.WAS FITTED WITH COCK-UP SPLINT ON 12-17-90.INJURY DEVELOPED OVER PERIOD OF TIME,DIDNT OCCURR SPECIFICALLY ON ANY ONE DAY.
I.NAME HELPING OTHER EMPL GET SMALL HOPPER OUT OF LARGE TRASH DUMPSTER.I.NAME AND OTHER EMPL STANDING ON EDGE OF DUMPSTER TRYING TO FREE WHEELS OF HOPPER AS IT WAS DRUG OUT OF DUMPSTER.HOPPER BECAME FREE,IT SWUNG AROUND STRIKING EMPL ON LEFT LEG KNOCKING HIM OFF EDGE OF DUMPSTER.LANDED ON RIGHT HIP.
PALLETIZING 80 LB BAGS AT TABLE. INJ BACK FROM LIFTING
TRYING TO KEEP PC FROM SHATTERING AS IT TURNE IN LATHE METAL CAUGHT HAND CUTTING FINGERS
EMPL WORKED 6-4 AS BLOCK PRESS OPERATOR A. RIGHT KNEE BEGAN HURTING,SAW DR 6-8.DIAG RIGHT SCIATICA & RIGHT SACROILIITIS.EMPL RETURNED TO DR 8-8 INJECTED WITH 40 MG KENALOG WITH 1 CC OF LIDOCAI NE WITHOUT EPINEPHRINE,ALSO PLACE ON CLINORIL 200 MG B.ID..
EE WAS WORKING ON REPAVING PROJECT IN DOCK AREA. SHE WAS PREPARING TO WET DOWN SAND AT HOLE IN AISLE WHEN SHE SLIPPED OFF THE EDGE AND TWISTED HER RIGHT ANKLE, SPRAINING ANKLE AND TEARING LIGM ENTS IN RIGHT ANKLE. A STRAINED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING DOWN A LADDER. HE MISSED A RUNG AND FELL TO THE GROUND. HE HAS A SPRAINED LEFT WRIST AND LEFT ANKLE.
HAULING MATERIALS AND CLEARING RUBBLE 3 RD FLOOR BACK PAIN
EMPLOYEE WAS STRIPPING INSULATION FROM #3 COPPER WIRE WITH A UTILITY KNIFE WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED CUTTING EMPLOYEES FINGER EMPLOYEE CUT RING FINGER & SECOND FINGER LEFT HAND WHICH REQUIRED STI TCHES
EMPLOYEE HAD CRAWLED INSIDE THE CIRCULATION PIPING ON #1@ EVAPORATOR TO INSPECT THE FORCED CIRCULATION PUMP HE REACHED AROUND THE IMPELLER BLADES TO EXAMINE THEIR CONDITION & CUT HIS LEFT ELBO W ON AN UNSEEN SHARP EDGE OR OBJECT LACERATION REQUIRED STITCHES
EMPL REMOVING 1 1/2" PIPE NIPPLE FROM FITTING WITH PIPE WRENCH FELT SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS SEQING PELLETS ON POLY SYSTEM & FOUND A COUPLE OF SPIDERS ON H IS CLOTHING WHICH HE KILLED APPARENTLY HE HAD BEEN BITTEN SEVERAL TIMES BESIDE HIS LEFT EYE RIGHT EYE RIGHT TEMPLE & TWO BITS ON THE BACK OF THE NECK BEFORE HE HAD KILLED THE SPIDERS EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN BENADRYL & DEUDRIN
EMPLOYEE WAS LAYING UNDER A PIPELINE TO WELD THE BOTTOM OF A SADDLE CONNECTION WHEN A WELDING SPARK FELL INTO HIS LEFT EAR EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED CORTISPORIN OTIC
EMPLOYEE WAS SEWING 10 LB PICKLE AND CANNING POCKETS AND DEVELOPED A BLISTER. TWO DAYS LATER BLISTER HAD POPPED AND WAS INFECTED, WITH RED STREAKS RUNNING UP EMPLOYEE'S HAND, PAST THE WRIST. E MPLOYEE WAS GIVEN 500 MG DURICEF AND NEOSPORIN OINTMENT.
EMPLOYEE NOTICED A BITE ON HIS LEFT LEG BELOW HIP IN THIGH AREA ATG THE END OF THE DAY PROBABLY CAUSED BY A SPIDER OR INSECT EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN AN INJECTION OF CORTISONE EPINEPHIN & TETANUS
I NAME WAS MAKING ROUTING KEY TOURS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REACH A KEY LOCATION THAT WAS BLOCKED BY PALLETS HE ATTEMPTED TO STEP ON PALLETS & SLIPPED & FELL ONTO THE CONCRETE FLOOR HITTING HIS RT SIDE & SHOULDER ON THE FLOOR I NAME BROKE HIS 4TH RIB & PULLED A TENDON IN HIS RT SHOULDER
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING DOWN WEEDS ALONG THE FENCE NEAR MINERAL OIL TANK WHEN HE WAS ATTACHED BY BEES WHICH STUNG HIM SEVERAL TIMES EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED SELDANE & DURICEF
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING A TRAILER SO HE COULD HOOK IT UP TO THE PICKUP BALL. HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE WET GROUND AND HE GRABBED THE EXHAUST PUMP ENGINE, WHICH WAS VERY HOT AND BURNED HIS PALM ON L EFT HAND. EMPLOYEE WAS GIVEN PRESCRIPTION OINTMENT FOR HAND.
EMPL SCALING AUGER.WEARING GLOVES AND SS SHIRT.RASH DEVELOPED ON BOTH FOREARMS.EMPL GIVEN RX OINTMENT TO USE ON RASH.
EMPLOYEE WAS WATCHING TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WORK ON BIN ONE SCREW CONVEYOR. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING READY TO START THE MOTOR TO TAKE A LOAD READING. I,NAME SAID HE COULD PUT THE GUARD BACK ON. OTHER EMPLOYEES DID NOT HEAR HIM. I,NAME WAS THERE TO WATCH THE MOTOR FOR OTHER EMPLOYEE. I,NAME BEND DOWN TO PICK UP GUARD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, HIS LEFT HAND CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE RU
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING AND SACKING 80 LB. OF PELLETS. EMPLOYEE WAS PICKING UP BAGS USING AS MUCH OF HIS FOREARMS TO STACK BAGS AS POSSIBLE TO KEEP HANDS FROM GOING THROUGH THE HOT BAGS AND HE J ERKED WHEN STACKING A BAG AND FELT SOMETHING POP IN HIS BACK.
WORKING ON K D TABLE RUNNING 80 LB BAGS OF SALT STARTED PALLETIZING ON NEW PALLET EMP FOOT SLIPPED BETWEEN DECK BOARDS CAUSED STRESS FRACT TO L FOOT.
HOUSE WATER PUMP KICKED OUT WHICH STARVED THE SEAL WATER TO THE PACKING GLAND OF THE PUMP SALT SLURRY POURED OUT OF PACKING GLAND LIQUID POOLED AROUND PUMP & EMPLOYEE STEPPED IN THE POOL OF HO T BRINE 240F TRYING TO STOP THE LEAK EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED FIRT & SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO BOTH ANKLES ALSO WAS PRESCRIBED MEDICINE FOR PAIN
THE INJURED AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE WERE DRILLING TUBES IN 34 EVAPORATOR AND THEY HAD JUST FINISHED DRILLING THE TUB.THE DRILL WAS SHUT OFF WHILE THEY WERE EXTRACTING THE BIT FROM THE TUBE.AT THI S TIME,WATER WAS SPRAYING UP FROM THE MANDREL/WATER COLLAR OF THE OTHER CREW'S DRILL.HE STOPPED LIFTING AND LOOKED DOWN AND OTHER EMPLOYEE KEPT LIFTING THE DRILL STRUCK EMPLOYEE ABOVE RIGHT E
EMPLOYEE WAS TIGHTENING 1/2IN BOLT & NUT & WAS USING AN END WRENCH WRENCH SLIPPED & HIS HAND JAMMED FORWARD PINCHING FINGER AGAINST SCREW BOX & WRENCH SKIN WAS DEBRIDED ON FINGER & BETADINE OI NTMENT WAS USED
EMPLOYEE WAS RUNNING THE PACKER AND WAS PUSHING A POCKET INTO THE PACKER.IT CAUGHT HER FINGER AND PULLED HER ARM INTO THE PACKER,BRUSING ARM.EMPLOYEE REQUIRED ONLY FIRST-AID ON INITIAL DOCTOR VISIT.ON 02-22-89,EMPLOYEE RETURNED TO DOCTOR,AND HE PRESCRIBED MEDICATION BECAUSE OF SWELLING.
MOVING INTER. DOOR IN RAIL CAR. RELEASING DOOR PINS BY PULING DOWN HANDLE TO MOVE DOOR IT BROKE LOSE PINNING L. HAND BETWEEN INTER. DOOR AND RAIL CAR DOOR FRAME BRUISED L. HAND DR. PRESC. PA IN MED.
EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING OUT FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE #4 EVAPORATOR WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON THE WET IMPELLER, AS HE REACHED FOR THE WELL LADDER. EMPLOYEE SLIPPED AND BRUISED INSIDE OF RIGHT KNEE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 12-30-88.
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ACROSS PLANT PARKING LOT AND TRIPPED OVER SOME METAL STRAPPING THAT WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND.EMPLOYEE FELL,HARD HAT STRUCK SAFETY GLASSES,CAUSING SAFETY GLASSES TO CUT EMP LOYEES NOSE,AND BREAKING NOSE.
EMPL DID NOT REPORT ACCIDENT UNTIL 11/9/88. EMPL STATES THAT ON 11/7/88 HE WAS STEPPING OFF OF FORKLIFT & SLIPPED & FELL INJURING BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS USING CAR PULLEY ROPE TO PULL A RAIL CAR ROPE BROKE CAUSING EMPLOYUEE TO FALL EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED LOWER BACK STRAIN WITH POSSIBLE HERNIATED DISC
EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING A PIECE OF CARDBOARD THAT WAS JAMMED IN TUBEWINDER SAW. HER HAND SLIPPED ON THE CARDBOARD, AND LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CUT ON SAW BLADE, REQUIRING STITCHES AND TETANUS SHOT
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING FORKLIFT AND HAD STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN AT THE END OF BUILDING. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE, ALSO DRIVING FORKLIFT, STRUCK THE OTHER FORKLIFT FOM BEHIND. THIS CAUSED BACK SPRAIN .
EMPLOYEE WAS USING A METAL SCRAPER TO REMOVE EXCESS GLUE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE GLUE POT AND CUT HER LITTLE FINGER, EITHER ON A METAL BUR OR GLUE BUR. CUT REQUIRED STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN A JAMMED SLIDING DOOR HE GRABBED THE HANDLE AND HANDLE BROKE DUE TO CORROSION AND CUT EMPLOYEE'S LEFT PALM CUT REQUIRED SUTURES
EMPLLYEE WAS PALLETIZING 80LB BAGS AT THE KD T ABLE WHEN H IS BACK BEGAN HURTING
EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING ON CASE TABLE & HIS RT.KNEE BEGAN HURTING THIS KNEE HAD BEEN INJURED ON 072987 EMPLOYEE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT ON 051188
EMPLOYEE WAS TAKING 100LB BAGS OF SALT FROM K.D.TABLE & STACKING THEM ON PALLETS HIS RT.SIDE & LOWER BACK BEGAN HURTING
EMPLOYEE WAS SEALING 6/10 LB. PLAY BAGS. IN ORDER TO PERFORM THIS JOB, THE EMPLOYEE MUST HOLD THE BAG WITH BOTH HANDS AND THEN FOLD THE BAG OVER AND BEND WRISTS IN A DOWNWARD MOTION. AFTER PER FORMING THIS TASK, HIS WRIST BEGAN HURTING. DOCTOR PRESCRIBED SPLINT FOR TENDONITIS.
EMPLOYEE WAS CUTTING DAMAGED SALT CANS OPEN WITH A BOX CUTTER KNIFE TO RECLAIM THE SALT.AS HE WAS CUTTING THE TOP OF THE CAN,HE PULLED ON THE KNIFE HARD ENOUGH TO CUT NOT ONLY THROUGH THE CAN, BUT ALSO HIS THUMB.CUT REQUIRED STITCHES.
EMPLOLYEE WAS RETURNING TO THE AREA UNDER THE BINS FROM THE FORKLIFT STORAGE AREA AS HE WAS PASSING UNDER THE POWDERED SALT S YSTEM HE STEPPED IN A LOW SPOT IN THE FLOOR TWISTING HIS RT.LEG E MPLOYEE PULLED HAMSTRING IN RT.LEG
EMP HAS BEEN FI5LING AND SEWING BAGS OF PELLETS AND OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, HIS LEFT WRIST HAS BCOME SORE. ON 01 21 88 HE SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT. DR DIAGNOSED TENDONITIS, LEFT WRIST AND PRES PRESCRIBED MEDI7ATION
EMP WAS STACKIN1 50 LB BAGS OF PELLETS ON PALLETS. HE WAS REPLACING A BROKEN BAG OF PELLETAND WHEN HE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A GOOD BAG, HE FELT A SHARP PAIN IN LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE HAD TU9NED AROUND AND STARTED TO WALK AND TRIPPED OVER A LOW BENCH, SKINNING HIS SHIN ON LEFT LEG AND BRUISING HIS LEFT KNEE. DOCTOR PLACED EMPLOYEE IN A KNEE IMMOBLIZER.
EMPLOYEE WAS PE9FORMING NORMAL JOB DUTIES OF BLOCK PRESS OPERATOR B. HE FELT A WETNESS INHIS SHORTS. HE WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND DISCOVERED HE WAS BLEEDING FROM THE SCROTUM AREA. DR DIAGNOSED PRE EXISTING S7ROTAL VARICIES.
THE EMPLOYEE WA8 WALKING PAST THE CAN ACCUMULATOR. THE ACCUMULATOR HAS A COVER ON IT. WITH A SHARP EDGE AND WHEN THE EMPLOYEE WALKED BY, SHE CUT HER ARM ON THIS SHARP EDGE. LACERATION AND S TICTHES. 3
EMPL HELPING RU3 BULK BAGS.FEEDING AND TAKING AWAY FROM WRAP MACHINE,DRIVING FORKLIFT TO DO THIS.FLOOR IS BAD AT BOTH ENDS OF AREA,CAUSING JARRING OF EMPL BACK.NO LOST TIME OR LIGHT DUTY HOWEV ER EMPL WAS GIV9N RX BY DR.
EMPLOYEE HAD BE9N HANDLING BAGS OF SALT ON TABLE AND BLISTER DEVELOPED ON LEFT HAND, THUMB. A RED STREAK STARTED UP EMPLOYEES ARM.
PALLETIZING 24-26OZ CASES OF SALT-43 LBS.AND 6/10 LB BALES OF SALT-61 LBS.AFTER PALLETIZING APPX 45 MIN EMPL DEVELOPED PAIN IN HIS BACK.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1LACING A SHAFT FOR ONE OF THE POWER ROLLERS ON THE PELLET PALLETIZER. A 4 X 6 BOARD HAD BEEN USED TO PROP UP THE BAG STOP. THE BOARD FELL, AND THE BAG STOP CAM DOWN AND HIT TH E EMPLOYEE'S RI1HT HAND. EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED ACETAMINOPHEN.
EMPLOYEE WAS TA5ING INVENTORY IN WAREHOUSE. IN ORDER TO COUNT ACCURATELY, EMPLOYEE HAD TO GET ON TOP OF PRODUCT. IN SOME AREAS THERE IS APPROX. 4' OF HEAD ROOM. AS EMPLOYEE WASCOUNTING HE HIT THE TOP OF HIS3HEAD ON A PIPE THAT STICKS DOWN ABOUT 18" BELOW DECK. THE EMPLOYEE' S HARD HAT RECEIVED THE BRUNT OF THE BLOW, BUT THE IMPACT JAMMED THE EMPLOYEE'S NECK DOWNWARDS.
EMPL EXITING DO2RWAY FROM CATWALK ABOVE SHIPPING AREA WHEN HE LOST FOOTING AND TRIPPED.BRUISED HIS SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE WAS WA5KING THROUGH THE GATE ON THE AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER TO CLEAN THE ELECTRIC EYE AND REFLECTOR AND CAUGHT HIS FOREARM ON THE BRACKET FOR LATCHING THE GAYE, WHICH WAS SHARP. EMPLOYEE CUT HIS FOREAR4. THIS CUT REQUIRED STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE HAD JU8T STARTED UP THE SPEEDEE FILTER AND NOTICED A PLUG UP ON THE CONVEYORS THE OTHER OPERATOR TOLD HER TO START UP THE SPEEDEE NOT KNOWING IT WAS ALREADY RUNNING AND I.NAME SHUT I T DOWN REALIZIN1 HER MISTAKE SHE TURNED QUICKLY TO START UP THE MACHINE AND SLIPPED ON SOME LOOSE SALT ON THE FLOOR FALLING DOWN AND BRUISING HER BACK AND HIP
EMPLOYEE HAD BE9N SACKING & SEWING 50LB BAGS OF SALD HIS RT WRIST & FOREARM BEGAN HURTING SHORTLY AFTER LUNCH HE SAID BUT HE DID NOT REPORT THE PROBLEM TO HIS FOREMAN UNTIL 230PM EMPLOYEE WAS SENT TO DOCTOR 3 DIAGNOSED WITH TENDONITIS
EMP WAS STACKIN1 80 LB BAGS OF SALT ON THE K.D. TABLE AND WAS STACKING ON 5TH OR 6TH LAYER OF THE PALLET LOAD HE HAD PUT ONE KNEE ON THE PREVIOS ROW AND HAD JUST PLACED A BAG OF THE BACK CORNE OF THE BAG WHEN3THE BAG BEGAN TOSLIDE OFF THE LOAD HE GRABBED CORNER OF THE BAG WITH ONE HAND AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK
EMPLOYEE HAD WA5KED OUT OF ACCESS DOOR TO ROOF HE LOST HIS FOOTING ON THE ROOF SLID DOWN ROOF AND FELL TO THE GROUND GROUND WAS VERY MUDDY BECAUSE OF RAIN WHICH HELPED TO CUSHION HIS FALL ROOF MAY HAVE BEEN 1LAZED OVER WITH ICE SINCE TEMPS WERE COLD THAT MORNING EMPLOYEES FACE AND LEFT HIP WERE BRUISED THERE WAS NO WORK RELATED REASON FOR EMPLOYEE TO BE ON ROOF
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7EMPTING TO GET CHUNKS OF SALT OUT OF HOPPER SALT TRUCKLED INTO WEIGH HOPPER BALANCED SCALES AND GATE CLOSED. EMPLOYEE S RIGHT HAND WAS CAUGHT IN SCALE GATE,CUTTING LITTLE FINGE FINGER , RIGHT3HAND, REQUIRING STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5CKING 42.5 CASES ON PALLET. HE PICKED UP A CASE OF SALT AND DID NOT HAVE A GOOD GRIP ON IT AND IT FELL, STRIKING HIS LEFT LEG. FOLLOWING DAY EMPLOYEE COMPLAINED OF SEVERE BRUIS E AND PAIN WHEN3WALKING.
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING BESIDE A PALLET LOAD OF 50 LB SALT BLOCKS TAKING TO FORMAN, WHEN TWO BLOCKS FELL FROM TOP OF LOAD, STRIKING EMPLOYEE S LEFT FOOT, FRACTURING 4TH AND 5 TH TOES.
EMPLOYEE WAS SH2VELING SALT FROM UNDER BINS AND PULLED A MUSCLE IN HIS LEFT LEG
EMPLOYEE WAS BL9EDING OFF A BRINE WELL LINE FOR REPAIR THE WELL HAD A CULVERT OVER IT PACKED WITH STRAW A WASP WAS IN THE STRAW AND STUNG THE EMPLOYEE ON HIS RT FOREARM THE FOLLOWING DAY THE A RM BEGAN SWELLI3G AND BECAME RED
EMPL USING HOE 7O RAKE DOWN ASHES ININCINERATOR.PLACED HOE AGAINST WALL AND HAD JUST TAKEN OFF HARD HAT WHEN HOE FELL STRIKING FOREHEAD.CUT REQ STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS BA7KING UP FORKLIFT IN WAREHOUSE AND HIS LEFT HAND SLIPPED OFF THE STEERING WHEEL,CAUSING LEFT SIDE OF FORLIFT TO SWERVE INTO STACK OF PALLETS.EMPLOYEE'S LEFT FOOT WAS PINCHED BET WEEN PALLETS AN8 FORKLIFT.HIS LEFT ANKLE AND FOOT WAS BRUISED, REQUIRING AN ANLE BRACE.
EMPLOYEE STATES3HE HAD REMOVED A 50LB SALT BLOCK FROM ROLLS & WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PLACING IT TO THE BACK OF THE UPPER PALLET WHEN HE FELT A POP & PAIN IN HIS UPPER BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS HA3GING A PIPE CLAMP IN RACK AND HE PINCHED HIS MIDDLE FINGER, LEFT HAND, WHEN IT BECAME PINCHED BETWEEN THE CLAMP HANGING ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ONE HE WAS HANGING. THESE ARE 8 INCH PIPE CLAMP8 WHICH WEIGHT APPROX. 43 LBS. EMPLOYEES FINGER WAS CUT, REQUIRING STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS RE4OVING SHEET METL COVER FROM DAMPER ON CENTRIFUGE DRYER TO CLEAN OUT HARD SALT FROM UNDERNEATH IT. WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS JABBING AT THE SALT, HIS HAND CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE SHE ET METAL HE HAD3JUST CUT. HE CUT THE BACK OF HIS RIGHT HAND ON THE SHEET METAL. THIS CUT REQUIRED STITCHES.
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5CKING 100 POUND BAGS OF SALT OFF K.D. TABLE. HE WAS STANDING ON WEST SIDE AND WAS PLACING BAGS ON NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOAD WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED OUT FROM UNDER HIM BECAUSE OF SOME LOOSE SALT3ON THE FLOOR. HE EXPERIENCED A SEVERE BACK STRAIN.
/N 6 4 86 AT 10345 AM I NAME REPORTED TO HIS FOREMAN THAT HIS BACK WAS MAKING POPPING SOUND AND BACK MUSCLES WERE ACHING AND THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE COMPANY DR HE WAS ASKED IF HE HAD HAD AN ACCIDENT AND3HE SAID NO HE JUST WANTED HIS BACK CHECKD OUT BECAUSE HE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN OFF FROM A PULLED MUSCLE IN HIS BACK (ACCIDENT OF 7 11 85) EMP CASLLED IN SICK ON 6 5 86 AND 6
EMPLOYEE WAS RE1AIRING PALLETS AND ONE OF THE 1" X 4" FACING BOARDS HAD A PIECE OF A STRINGER STILL ON ONE END. EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING THE FACING BOARD WITH HIS LEFT HAND, HITTING AT THE PIECE O F STRINGER WITH3A HAMMER. EMPLOYEE HIT HIS LEFT THUMB WITH THE FACE OF THE HAMMER, PINCHING HIS THUMB BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE EDGE OF THE BOEARD. EMPLOYEE WAS PRESCRIBED 250 MG. KEFLEX.
EMPLOYEE WAS LO5DING A VAN TRAILER WITH 50 LB. BLOCKS, 65 LB. BRICK CASES, AND 50 LB BAGS. DRIVER OF TRUCK ASKED EMPLOYEE TO REARRANGE LOAD ANDTHIS HAD TO BE DONE BY HAND. AFTER LEAVING WORK T HAT DAY, EMPLOY9E BEGAN EXPERIENCING BACK PAIN.
EE WAS REARRANG3NG 50# SALT BL OCKS BY HAND IN A TRUCK & WAS PULLING TOP BLOCK ON A STACK OF 3 HIGH. THE MIDDLE BLOCK INT HE STACK OF 3 SLID OFF TO THE FLOOR OF THE TRUCK. THERE WAS INADE0UATE LIGHTING IN THE TRAILER & EE COULD NOT SEE WHERE BLOCK HAD FALLEN & HE PINCHED HIS FINGERS BETWEEN THE BLOCK IN HIS HAND & THE BLOCK THAT HAD FALLEN CAUISNG THE END OF H
EMPLOYEE HAD FO9KLIFT ON REPAIR RAMP HE WAS LYING ON THE FLOOR TRYING TO REMOVE BOTTOM MAST ROLLERS WHEN THE TOP ROLLER ON THE LEFT SIDE FELL FROM ITS SHAFT APPROX 7 FT STRIKING EMPLOYEE IN T HE CHEST THE RO5LER WEIGHS APPROX 3 1/2 LBS THE ROLLERS HAVE NO RETAINER TO KEEP THEM ON THE SHAFT ONCE THE MAST IS RAISED TO EXPOSE THE ROLLERS
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5NDING ON AN 8 FT LADDER TRYING TO OPEN A VALVE HE GRABBED A PIPE TO STEADY HIMSELF BUT THE PIPE HAD BEEN CUT LOOSE AND OFFERED NO SUPPORT CAUSING HIM TO LOSE HIS BALANCE HE JUM PED FROM THE LA8DER AND STRUCK HIS LEG AGAINST A TWO INCH VALVE BRUISING HIS RT KNEE
EMPLOYEE WAS TI1HTENING A 2 IN X 1 IN REDUCING BUSHING INTO A 2 IN TEE WHICH WAS PLACED IN A VISE IN MACHINE SHOP WITH A 24 IN PIPE WRENCH THE PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO FALL BAC KWARDS PUTTING 5 STRAIN ON HER LEFT LEG
EMPLOYEE WAS CL2SING THE DOOR TOTHE INCINERATOR AND MOVED A WEIGHT THAT WAS ON THE DOOR FOR BALANCE EMPLOYEE ALLEDEGLY EXPERIENCED BACK PAIN WHEN CLOSING INCINERATOR
EMPLOYEE WAS ST5CKING 50 LB BLOCKS ONTO A PALLET WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A SHARP PAIN IN HIS BACK
EMPLOYEE WAS AT7ACHING HOSE CLAMPS TO A 3/4 HOSE HOLDING THE HOSE IN HIS HAND AND TIGHTENING THE HOSE CLAMP WITH A SCREWDRIVER AS HE WAS ATTACHING THE LAST HOSE CLAMP THE SCREWDRIVER SLIPPED O UT OF THE SLOT 3N THE CLAMP AND PUNCTURED EMPLOYEES LEFT HAND THIS PUNCTURE BECAME INFECTED REQUIRING PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION
EMPLOYEE WAS CL9ANING SALT FROM THE INSIDE OF THE PACKER ON THE SMALL PACKAGE LINE WHEN THE EMPLOYEE PULLED HER HAND OUT HER FOREARM SCRAPED AGAINST THE SHARP EDGE OF A STEEL GUIDE RAIL CUTTIN G HER ARM THIS 7UT REQUIRED STITCHES
EMPLOYEE WAS HA5ING PROBLEMS WITH BLOCK PRESS EQUIPMENT MAKING GOOD BLOCKS AND HAD STACKED FOUR BLOCKS ON THE CARRY OUT ROLLERS EMPLOYEE SHUT OFF THE PRESS AND STARTED TO REMOVE TOP BLOCK TO P LACE ON PALLET 4HEN HE REMOVED TOP BLOCK ONE OF THE BLOCKS BELOW IT FELL OFF THE ROLLERS ONTO EMPLOYEES FOOT
EMP WAS ADJUSTI3G THE ANGLE OF THE TRAY ON THE BLOCK PRESS BY PUTTING ADDITIONAL GLOVES UNDER IT. THE TRAY WAS HUNG UP ON SOME NUTS THAT EXTENDS OUT AND WERE CONTRACTING THE SIDES OF THE TRAY. WHEN THE TRAY W2ULDNT COME UP EASILY, HE JERKED IT WITH HIS R ARM. THE TRAY CAME UP & HE EXPERIENCED A STINGING, BURNING SENSATION IN HIS UPPER RIGHT ARM
EMPLOYEE WAS PI7KING UP AN EMPTY PALLET TO PUT ON TOP OF A FULL PALLET OF SALT BLOCKS. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AND SURGERY WAS PERFORMED TO REPAIR A R UPTURE TO RIGHT3GROIN AND STOMACH AREA.
EMPLOYEE WAS TRYING TO REMOVE GLASS STOP COCK FROM GLASS FLASK WHICH HAD BECOME FROZEN IN THE NECK OF THE FLASK BY SALT CYRSTALS. HE TAPPED THE STOP COCK ON THE EDGE OF A TABLE AND WHEN HE TRI ED TO REMOVE STOP COCK, IT BROKE OFF AND CUT HIS RIGHT THUMB. CUT REQUIRED FOUR STITCHES.
I,NAME WAS WORKING AS PART OF A CREW OF FIVE EMPLOYEES REPLACING TUBES IN EVAPORATOR. HE WAS POSITIONED BETWEEN FLUE SHEETS AND WAS DIRECTING TUBES THROUGH THE LOWER SHEET AFTER THEY WERE FED FROM ANOTHER WORKER OVERHEAD. ONE OF APPROX. 15-20 TUBES WHICH WERE STACKED UPRIGHT ALONG INTERIOR OF KETTLE WALL FELL THROUGH A HOLE IN THE UPPER FLUE SHEET, STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF HEAD
EMPLOYEE WAS DRILLING AND CHIPPING CAST IRON IN THE BELT OF #2 EVAPORATOR WHEN A CHIP OF METAL MUST HAVE FLEW UP INTO EMPLOYEE\S RIGHT EYE. EMPLOYEE DID NOT NOTICE ANY IRRITATION UNTIL HE WENT TO BED THAT NIGHT. HE WENT TO THE DOCTOR THE FOLLOWING DAY AND A SMALL EMBEDDED PARTICLE OF METAL WAS REMOVED FROM EYE.
EMP WAS STACKING 50 LB BLOCKS OF SALT ON PALLETS. HE WAS PUTTING A BLOCK ON THE TOP LAYER BACK ROW OF THE FIRST PALLET AND FELT STINGING IN HIS LOWER BACK AND COULD NOT STRAIGHTEN UP
EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING ANOTHER EMPLOYEE PUT A SPOOL USED FOR CAP STOCK IN CENTER OF CAP STOCK AND WHILE LIFTING THE SPOOL HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK THIS SPOOL WEIGHS APPROX 60 LBS EMPLOYE E STRAINED BACK AND WAS PLACED ON LIGHT DUTY
EE WAS PALLETIAING 24/26 OZ CASES & BALES. HE WAS PULLING BALES OFF THE BALE TABLE WHEN BRANDS WERE CHANGED. HE PUSHED 4 CASES DOWN OUT OF THE WAY SO HE COULD START LOADING A NEW PALLET WI TH THE NEW BRAND OF CASES. WHEN EE GOT CAUGHT UP HE WENT TO LOAD THE CASES HE HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WAY TO PUT THEM ON T HE PALLET THEY BELONGED ON. HE THEN FELT PAIN IN HIS LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A FORKLIFT DOWN AN AISLEWAY AND HIT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR WHICH WAS APPROX. 3 X 2 X 6 DEEP WHICH HAD WATER STANDING IN IT, WHICH CAUSE IT TO NOT BE VERY VISABLE EMPLOYEE S B ACK WAS SEVERELY JARED, HOWEVER HE WAS NOT IN TOO MUCH PAIN BACK PAIN BECAME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE AND EMPLOYEE SOUGHT DR TREATMENT ON 7-16-85 AND WAS PLACED A LIGHT DUTY BECAUSE OF LOW BACK ST
EMP WAS REPAINRING FORKLIFT AND HAD THE MASTS RAISED 40 IN FROM THE FLOOR HE WAS STANDING BETWEEN FORKS CHECKING A BROKEN HYDRAULIC HOSE WHEN THE MAST FELL OFF THE BRACKET STRIKING EMPLOYEES L LEFT HAND
EMPLOYEE WAS HOLDING BEARING GUIDE BLOCK IN BEARING BLOCK AS OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE SLIDING ROLL AND BLOCK ASSEMBLY INTO PRESS HOUSING.EMPLOYEE MOVED HIS HANDS AND HIS FINGER CAUGHT BETWEEN BEAR ING BLOCK AND FRAME OF PRESS.EMPLOYEE\S TIP OF LEFT INDEX FINGER WAS CUT OFF (NO BONE LOSS)
EMPLOYEE BENT OVER TO PICK UP A CUTTING TORCH HEAD AND FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. HE HAD BENT OVER AT THE WAIST INSTEAD OF BENDING WITH HIS KNEES TO PICK UP THE TORCH HEAD. THIS ACTION CAUSED A BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE WAS BELOW STEAM BELT IN #1 EVAPORATOR, STARTING A TUBE IN FLUE SHEET SO IT COULD BE ROLLED. THE TUBE HOLE NEEDED TO BE RECLEANED SO THIS EMPLOYEE TOLD ANOTHER EMPLOYEE TO RAISE THE T UBE SO HE COULD FILE THE HOLE. THE EMPLOYEE HOLDING THE TUBE UP LET THE TUBE SLIP FROM HIS GRASP AND THE END OF THE TUBE STRUCK THE OTHER EMPLOYEES FINGER, THE TIP OF THE EMPLOYEES RIGHT MIDDL
EMPLOYEE WAS REPLACING PROPANE BOTTLE ON FORKLIFT. THE FORKLIFT WAS PARKED BY THE PROPANE BOTTLE STORAGE CASE. THE EMPOLOYEE GOT A FULL BOTTLE OUT OF THE CASE AND PICKED IT UP BY HOLDING THE ENDS OF THE BOTTLE AND LIFTING IT UP, USING HIS LEG MUSCLES. HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS SHOULDER.
EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN REPAIRING WINDOW PANES. THIS INVOLVED CHIPPING OLD GLAZING COMPOUND FROM THE FRAMES. THE FRAMES WERE RUSTY AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUST CAME FROM THIS JOB. EMPLOYEE NOT ICED AN EYE IRRITATION THAT EVENING AND WAS SENT TO DOCTOR THE FOLLOWING DAY. DOCTOR REMOVED FOREIGN PARTICLE BY DISSECTION.
SALT CANS HAD JAMMED UP ON RECUTTER. EE SHUT OFF RECUTTER & HAD STARTED TO UNPLUG RECUTTER. HIS HAND SLIPPED & HIT SHARP EDGE ON RECUTTER PULL ARM. 1" LACERATION TO MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND RE QUIRING SITICHES.
THE EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING BAG QUIDES INSIDE OF AN AUTOMATIC PALLETIZER WHEN THE MACHINE ENERGIZED ALLOWING THE RAKE TO RETURN TO ITS START POSITION. WHEN THIS OCCURRED IT PINNED THE EYMPLOYEE BETWEEN THE RAKE AND THE FRAME OF THE MACHINE THE EMPLOYEE HAD NOT LOCKED OUT THE MACHINE.
THIS EMPLOYEE IS OUR CITY DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER. HE WAS UNLOADING 100# BAGS OF SALT AT INEEDA UNIFORM & LINEN SERVICE, 329 WEST 5TH, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, OFF THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK. WHEN PUSHING AN EMPTY PALLET BACK TO THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK BED, HE STRUCK HIS HEAD ON A BOLT PROTRUDING ON AN OVERHEAD DOOR AT THE INEEDA UNLOADING DOCK AND CUT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD. THIS CUT REQUIRED STI
EE WAS LOADING 80# BAGS BY HAND ONTO PALLETS. EE HAD JUST COMPLETED THE FIRST PALLET & WAS PUTTING THE FIST BAG ON SECOND PALLET WHEN HE STEPPED ONTO THE PALLET TO PLACE THE BAG DOWN. HE STEPP ED ONTO THE PALLET & HIS FOOT SLIPPED ON A PAPER SLIP SHEET WHICH HAD LOOSE SALT ON IT & TWISTED HIS RIGHT KNEE. RIGHT KNEE STRAIN WITH TRAUMATIC SRTHITIS. BONE CHIP IN RIGHT KNEE.
EE WAS DRILLING A HOLE IN RECUTTER FRAME IN CAN LINE AREA WHEN DRILL BIT HUNG UP IN HOLE CAUSING DRILL TORQUE TO TWIST HIS HAND WITH A SHARP QUICK MOTION. EE SOUGHT MEDICAL ATTENTION 3-16-84. EE FRACTURED BONE IN PALM OF RIGHT HAND WHICH EXTENDS FROM RING FINGER RIGHT HAND.
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING A 50 BLOCK OF SALT ON BOTTOM PALLET, SECOND ROW AND FELT A SHARP PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK. EMPLOYEE SUSTAINED BACK STRAIN.
EMPLOYEE STATES HE WAS STACKING 100 BAGS OF SALT ON THE 5TH LAYER OF THE STACK AND WAS IN THE PROCESS OF PLACING THE BAG ON THE FARTHEST CORNER OF THE LOAD WHEN HE DEVELOPEMNT PAIN IN HIS BAKC BACK HIS PHYSIUCIAN HAS DISNOSED TRUMATIC SCROILITIES AND CANNOT EXLUDE POSSIBLE DISC INJURY.
EMPLOYEE HAD JUST UNPLUGGED LIFT TRUCK. SHE DID NOT ROLL UP THE CABEL, BUT LEFT IT ON THE FLOOR. INSTEAD OF TURNING AROUND, SHE WALKED BACKWARDS AFTER UNPLUGGING THE LIFT TRUCK AND TRIPPED OVE R THE CABLE LAYING ON THE FLOOR. SHE FELL, CATCHING HERSELF WITH HER LEFT ARM. SHE STRAINED HER LEFT WRIST AND WAS GIVEN A PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION.
EMPLOYEE WAS STACKING DAMAGED 50LB SALT BLOCKS ON A PALLET THE BLOCKS WERE SETTING ON ONE BOARD OF A PALLET AND WERE UNSTABLE THE STACK OF BLCKS FELL OVER STRIKING EMPLOYEES LEFT LEG AND ANKLE
EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OUT A JAMMED SALT CAN AND DID NOT LIFT DEFLECTOR DEFLECTOR HAD A SHARP EDGE AND EMPLOYEE CUT HIS FIRST FINGER LEFT HAND ON THE DEFLECTOR EMPLOYEKE RECEIVED STITCHES IN FI NGER
EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING AND SEWING 25LB BAGS OF SALT. HE STATED HE WAS DOING NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, WHEN PAIN DEVELOPED IN HIS LEFT ARM.
EMPLOYEE OPENED AN INCINERATOR DOOR TO PUT IN A BAG OF CARDBOARD SALT CANS AND AN AEROSOL CAN WHICH WAS IN THE INCINERATOR EXPLODED WHEN DOOR WAS OPENED. EMPLOYEE RECEIVED FIRST DEGREE BURNS T O HIS FACE AND BOTH ARMS. HE WAS ALSO HOSPITALIZED OVERNIGHT.
EMP WAS TAKING TOW EXTRA 80# BAGS OF PELLETS OFF TOP OF A LOAD HE WAS GOING TO WRAP HE PICKED UP THE FIRST BAG AND TWISTED 90 DEGREE AND SET BAG ON FLOOR HE THEN EXPERIENCED SOME PAIN IN LOW LOWER BACK REGION
LOADING CREW HAD TO REARRANGE PRODUCT ALREADY IN TRUCK TO CORECT AN ERROR EMP WAS PICKING BAGS UP OFF THE FLOOR AND BAGS STARTED TO TUMBLE BACK DOWN TO THE FLOOR EMP TRIED TO STOP BAG WITH LEF HAND AT THIS TIM EMP FELT SHARP PAIN IN HIS LEFT SHOULDER EMP WAS GIVEN EMDICATION PRESCRIPTION FOR PAIN
LOADING CREW HAD TO REARRANGEE PRODUCT ALREADY IN TRUCK TO CORRECT A LOADING ERROR EMP WAS PICKING BAGS UP OFF THE FLOOR AND WAS PUTTING THEM ONM PALLET THAT WAS APPROX 4 FT HIGH WHEN INJURY OCCURRED EMP WAS IN A BENT OVER POSITION WHEN PICKING BAGS UP AND WAS TRYING TO DO THIS AT A FASTER THAN NORMAL RATE THESE WERE 50 LB BAGS OF SALT
EMPLOYEE WAS FILLING AND SEWING BAGS OF SALT PELLETS. EMPLOYEE NOTICED MISSEWN BAG AND TURNED TO SHUT BAG HANGER OFF TO REMOVE BAD BAG. HE STEPPED OFF BACKWARDS INTO BAD BAGS LAYING ON FLOOR A ND FELL, HITTING HIS LEFT ELBOW ON WEIGHT SCALES. EMPLOYEE SEVERELY BRUISED LEFT ELBOW.
EMPLOYEE FELT MINOR BACK PAIN WHILE LOADING BAGS OF SALT BY HAND IN A TRUCK AT 0815PM FURTHER UP SOME 50LB BAGS OF SALT OFF THE FLOOR
...STRAIN DEVELOPED WHILE STACKING 80LB BAGS OFF KD TABLE.
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING BLOCK PRESS. MOLD BOX HUNG UP WHEN COMING DOWN TO START CYCLE. EMPLOYEE RAN IT BACK UP AND DOWN AND ALSO USED AIR TO BLOW OUT LOOSE SALT, WHICH WAS CAUSING MOLD TO JAM. AT THIS TIME, EAST BRACKET WHICH HOLDS CHUTE UP BROKE, LETTING CHUTE FALL ONTO EMPLOYEE\S LEFT WRIST.